Roblox Recap: November 2024

Hello, Robloxians! Thanks for tuning in to the Roblox Recap monthly newsletter, a quick and easy way to get caught up on everything happening each month on the Roblox platform. Here’s a summary of the latest and greatest news, updates, and announcements for November 2024…

New Features

• Leave feedback when upvoting/downvoting an experience ↗

• Improved Performance with Occlusion Culling (Studio Beta) ↗

• Curate and sell outfits on the Avatar Marketplace ↗

• Report individual chat messages in experience Chats ↗

• Manually set experience Genre and Subgenres ↗

• Thumbnail personalization ↗

• Channel Tabs & UI Gradient now Available in TextChatService ↗

• Mesh & Image APIs now available in published experiences ↗

• Studio Script Sync (Alpha) ↗

• Quality filter on Trades page ↗

• Marketplace fee for selling Roblox-created Limited items lowered to 30% ↗

Updates

• Friend limit increased to 250 users ↗

• Earn up to 25% more Robux when purchasing on computer/web ↗

• VR Support for Gamepad Emulator in Studio ↗

• Analytics: View acquisition sources for curation, continue play, charts, and search ads ↗

• Studio Solid Modeling (CSG) performance and robustness improvements ↗

• Improvements to Avatar Auto-Setup (Studio Beta) ↗

• Improved Pathfinding Algorithm ↗

• Avatar Joint Upgrade: Enabling Physically-Simulated Characters (Studio Beta) ↗

• Visibility of previous usernames on profiles temporarily disabled ↗

• Updates to Roblox Terms of Use ↗

Roblox Communities

• Groups rebranded as Communities ↗

• NEW: Permanently ban users (and alt accounts) from a Community ↗

• NEW: Additional Permissions for Creator Group Roles in Creator Hub ↗

• NEW: Asset Privacy and Permissions for Audio and Video ↗

Changes to Child Accounts and Parental Controls

• New Parental Controls ↗

• Roblox Chat disabled for users <13, permission needed for Experience Chat in 2025 ↗

• Changes to discovery and playability of unrated experiences for users <13 ↗

• Posting to and visibility of Community Walls removed for users <13 ↗

Coming Soon

• Paid Access experiences eligible for Engagement Based Payouts (December 3, 2024) ↗

• Forums within Communities (2025) ↗

Events

• Black Friday Sale on the Avatar Marketplace

Corporate

• Applications open: 2025 Community Apprenticeship - Product Design hiring program at Roblox HQ ↗

• Roblox to open new office in Washington DC in Q1 2025 for lobbying United States lawmakers ↗

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In case you missed it…

Catch up on the October 2024 Recap for a full list of news, updates, and announcements released last month:

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Tune in to the latest episode of Bloxy News: LIVE today (December 1, 2024) at 9:00AM PT where everything in this Blog post was showcased in detail live on stream, plus a special announcement.

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